SABSA Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring SABSA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 - 122
Rank change year-on-year - - -12
Contract jobs citing SABSA 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.11% - 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £424 - -
25th Percentile £459 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £634 - -
90th Percentile £681 - -
South East median daily rate £483 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -28.44% +12.50% -7.34%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

SABSA falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,581 1,078 1,808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 85.37% 93.25% 89.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,046 626 942
10th Percentile £303 £313 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £608
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 26 102
10th Percentile £23.94 £22.29 £20.20
25th Percentile £71.80 £32.05 £41.75
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £61.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +0.32% +7.76%
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.03 £72.18
90th Percentile £101.13 £87.96 £87.41
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +69.64% -37.78% -8.16%

SABSA
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SABSA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

SABSA job vacancy trend in Berkshire

SABSA
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SABSA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SABSA

SABSA
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SABSA in Berkshire over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SABSA in Berkshire

SABSA
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SABSA within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 21 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading - 1 £675 -
Wokingham - 1 £400 - 1
SABSA
South East

SABSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) NGFW
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) MODAF
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CCDE
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto